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High-tech Western weapons 'useless' in Ukraine conflict
Satellite-guided shells are particularly vulnerable to Russian jamming technology, commanders in Kiev have told the newspaperRussia's electronic warfare capabilities have rendered precision-gu...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
'US expanding bioweapons research in Africa'
The US is expanding its biological military presence across Africa, Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov claimed on Tuesday. According to the head of Russia's Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Prot...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zambia does not need US military presence - MP
Zambia has no need for a US military presence, Stephen Kampyongo, a member of the southern African country's National Assembly, told RT in an exclusive interview, questioning the relevance of security...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 13:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 18 | by Jonathan Moyo
Pentagon blocking prosecution of Russia by ICC as this could lead to prosecution of American soldiers
The Pentagon has been accused of blocking the sharing of US intelligence with the international criminal court (ICC) about Russian war crimes in Ukraine.The Biden White House and state departm...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:31hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo
From Trump to Biden, it is getting 'more worse!'
In black English, former president Donald Trump was a lunatic, a loud-mouthed New Yorker, whose mouth was unfiltered, a thoroughly "worse guy". If that is so, US president Joe Biden (lovin...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka
What if US president is wrong on Ukraine?
Since the once great newspapers, the New York Times, the Washington Times and Los Angeles Times have been captured by the Democratic Party, they are all blowing President Joe Biden's narrative about t...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zanu-PF youths, police clash in Goromonzi
RUNNING battles erupted in Goromonzi yesterday between police and an estimated over 1 000 Zanu-PF youths who had invaded a farm before pegging and allocating themselves pieces of land.Several ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine is having problems with American weapons
Debate has been raging about problems around the deployment of American armored vehicles in Ukraine.We are talking about MaxxPro armored vehicles that were recently delivered in the interests ...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
America transfers Russian military equipment to Ukraine
The Russian Embassy in the Republic of South Africa has issued a statement condemning the United States of America over its announcement to transfer to Ukraine Russian weapons that were meant to be se...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 17:51hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panic as America army opens military office in Zambia
Political analysts have raised alarm over the announcement by the United States of America Embassy in Zambia that the infamous United States Africa Command is opening an office in Zambia. On M...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 11:17hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
Who is behind the biohazard threat in Ukraine?
From the very beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States has unleashed a massive campaign to accuse Moscow of all sorts of crimes.Protecting the civilian population...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia sanctions Let's Go Brandon
Moscow has announced sanctions against US leadership, including Joe Biden, as well as the chiefs of the Pentagon and the CIARussia on Tuesday sanctioned US President Joe Biden, Secretary of St...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biological lab found in Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the issue of biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.We confirm that, during the special military operat...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US recalls official memo that hammered nations for being 'in Russia's camp'
The release of a strongly-worded instruction was an "error," according to the State DepartmentThe US has recalled a diplomatic cable that instructed its envoys to tell their Indian and UAE cou...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Recent Supplies of Weapons to Ukraine by NATO Countries
Starting from the beginning of the year to the end of the second decade of February, nearly fifty military transport aircraft from various countries - USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and Lithuania...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Press Release by the Ambassador of Russia to Zimbabwe and to Malawi
UFO spotted in Gwanda
AN unidentified flying object (UFO) was sighted in Gwanda rural and urban on 20 January, B-Metro reported.An UFO is a mysterious object seen in the sky for which no orthodox scientific explana...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa attacks Chamisa, Biti over sanctions
Zanu-PF secretary of finance Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that the main opposition MDC Alliance would not win the March 26 by-elections became its leaders Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti allegedly cal...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa says political rout awaits Chamisa's MDC
Zanu-PF Secretary for Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa has laid down the gauntlet for the MDC Alliance promising them a mauling in the upcoming National Assembly and local authoritie...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military remains single decisive factor in politics
The opprobrium that characterised the rebuke of remarks made by Chief Murinye by the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Dr Constantino Chiwenga exemplifies the reality around the power matrix in Zimbabwe....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 12 | by Sapien Sapien
What good is Mutambara prosperity pentagon if buffoon can, once again, rig elections and impose voodoo policies
Dear Nomazulu Thata, Thank you for your thought provoking article "Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking" in Bulawayo24.com. I agree that...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Old Joe Biden trips and falls 3 times boarding Air Force One
President Joe Biden stumbled three times and fell on the steps of Air Force One on Friday, prompting fresh questions about his health.The 78-year-old - the oldest president in US history - app...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
No respite for Zimbabwe under Biden
The United States of America, believed by many to be the sole superpower post-Cold War, has arguably the most staggering defence budget ever known to humanity. Post the cataclysmic attacks of ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Sapien Sapien
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
US downed its own drone thinking it belongs to ran
Iran's deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi denied on Friday having lost any drone recently and hinted that the US could have downed their own "by mistake.""We have not lost any drone in the...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?
Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. B...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
ZANU PF, Jonathan Moyo, Strive Masiyiwa, Lovemore Madhuku, Jealousy Mawarire pentagon gangsters of evil
I am not amused by the discord between, Jonathan Moyo-Strive Masiyiwa, Jonathan Moyo-Lovemore Madhuku, Jonathan Moyo-Jealousy Mawarire that had been engineered by ZANU PF style of leadership. I hate J...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Exposed: The sprawling network of US military bases in Africa
The other CSL, in the remote smuggling hub of Agadez, is set to become the premier US military outpost in West Africa. That drone base, located at Niger's Airbase 201, not only boasts a $100m construc...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo White City explosion: Dereliction of duty
In every election, be it in Zimbabwe, Africa or any other country, there are pre-election furores, these are events and pronouncements that either shock or intrigue the masses before the election....Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | 6 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
MDC-T and the American connection
IN my last submission, I touched on a crucial player in the regime change agenda - the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (ZDT) - and hinted they were a story for another day. The Trust was set up...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Tafadzwa Masango
Varsity love rat
FOUR female students from University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) found themselves in a sex pyramid with one Confidence Hilary Thomas.The story came to the public domain...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 16:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's supporters stab cop with a glass
THREE suspected Zanu PF supporters landed in the dock on Thursday after they stabbed a police officer while protesting against the arrest of their friend.According to NewZimbabwe.com, Zonde Mu...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zuma' crashes
Washington - A military satellite launched by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 14:26hrs | | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwean jihadist who fights with Isis 'may still be alive'
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean man, Raymond Matimba, a jihadist, who fled Manchester for Syria has been identified as a key member of a clique of British fighters that include the notorious Islamic S...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preparing for power, Chiwenga to deputise
Acting and soon to be President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now preparing for State power and to immediately usher in a quasi transitional government, to replace long serving President Robert Mugabe, and ...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari/ Malvin Motsi
When Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar made Zimbabwe dare to dream
The following is an extract from Ian Hawkey's article from Issue Nine of the Blizzard, published in June 2013. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Ian Hawkey
Donald Trump launches US air strikes against Assad regime, Russian military informed
The United States launched a military strike Thursday on a Syrian government target in response to their chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week.On Presiden...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa preparing to take over from Mugabe
Acting and soon to be President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now preparing for State power and to immediately usher in a quasi transitional government, to replace long serving President Robert Mugabe, and ...Published: 26 Dec 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
'US forces may have committed war crimes,' says ICC
The Hague - US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said in a report on Monday, raising...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 13:23hrs | | by Agencies
Iran to supply Zimbabwe with Cyber-warfare weapons and technology
The Islamic Republic of Iran has crystallised relations with President Robert Mugabe's regime, following disclosures this month that Tehran is set to supply Harare with advanced cyber-warfare weapons ...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 11:21hrs | 7 | by Itai Mushekwe
Somalia attacks expose US 'hunger' to dominate Africa
On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members of the Al-Shabaab guerrilla movement in a bombing operation in Somalia.These military actions are part and parcel of a broader ...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Abayomi Azikiwe
Police bosses framed over Mujuru links
An ex-cop who lied that top cops were part of Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru's convoy was yesterday fined $300 for deliberately supplying false information to public authorities....Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
US regime change disaster in the Middle East
Seymour Hersh's recent revelations about an effort by the US military leadership in 2013 to bolster the Syrian army against jihadist forces in Syria shed important new light on the internal bureaucrat...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:07hrs | | by Gareth Porter
US ships live anthrax to S Korea
The US military accidentally sent live anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country and to a US military base in South Korea, the Pentagon says.Twenty-two military personnel at t...Published: 28 May 2015 at 13:49hrs | | by BBC
Goodluck Jonathan calls for US help as Boko Haram invade city
Kano - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for more US help in fighting Boko Haram, as the Islamists struck again on Saturday and called for a boycott of upcoming general elections....Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by AFP
Don't blame squatters, says Tsvangirai
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says the government is clueless about solving Zimbabwe's housing crisis.Speaking in Epworth, a shanty suburb in Harare, yesterday - where government is demo...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai goes on Epworth walkabout
Movement for Democratic Change president Morgan Tsvangirai today visited Epworth and saw for himself the poverty and the problems affecting the community.The MDC-T leader first addressed a cro...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese dismiss Snowden's stealth jet hack accusations
China dismissed accusations it stole F-35 stealth fighter plans as groundless on Monday, after documents leaked by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on a cyber attack were published b...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 12:22hrs | 4 | by Reuters
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